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From:<b> Omar Abudayyeh</b> <<a
href="mailto:oabudayyeh@gmail.com">oabudayyeh@gmail.com</a>><br>
Date: Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:04 PM<br>
Subject: An Evening with Joia Mukherjee: Global Healthcare and the
Haiti Crisis, TODAY 5/10, 6:00pm<br>
To: @<a href="http://mit.edu">mit.edu</a><br>
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International Medical Relief of Children (FIMRC) and the Global
Poverty Initiative (GPI)<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font size="+1"><b>An Evening with Joia
Mukherjee: Global Healthcare and the Haiti Crisis</b></font><br>
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<font size="+1"><b>Joia Mukherjee, MD, MPH, Medical Director of
Partners in Health<br>
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Monday, May 10, 2010<br>
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Dinner at 5:30pm, Seminar begins at 6:00pm<br>
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Room 34-101</b></font><br>
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We hope you will join us on Monday, May 10th, when Dr. Mukherjee will
discuss problems with healthcare in the developing world, especially
with a focus on children. She will speak about health care delivery
and treatment of chronic diseases in resource-poor settings and how
the PIH model and mission fits into this. As she was heavily involved
in PIH's efforts in Haiti, she will also cover how she helped
respond to the recent earthquake in Haiti. Dr. Mukherjee arrived to
Haiti within 48 hours of the earthquake and has worked with PIH's
sister organization, Zanmi Lasante, to respond immediately to the
crisis. Dr. Mukherjee has called for hiring and mobilizing community
health workers at the grassroots level and rebuilding the capacity of
Haiti's public sector to provide health care and other essential
social services.<br>
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Dr. Joia Mukherjee was trained in Infectious Disease, Internal
Medicine, and Pediatrics at the Massachusetts General Hospital and has
an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. She is an Associate
Professor at the Division of Global Health Equity at the Brigham and
Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School where she teaches
medical students, residents and fellows in the fields of infectious
disease, global health and health disparities. Since 2000, Dr.
Mukherjee has served as the Medical Director of Partners In Health, an
international medical charity with clinical programs in Haiti, Rwanda,
Lesotho, Malawi, Peru, Mexico, Russia, Burundi and inner-city Boston.
In this capacity, she is involved in programmatic and clinical work to
provide health care and reduce health disparities by developing public
sector, community based programs with local colleagues in those
countries. Additionally, Dr. Mukherjee consults for the World Health
Organization on the treatment of HIV and MDR-TB in developing
countries and is the director of PIH's advocacy arm, the Institute
for Health and Social Justice, which seeks to use field-based and
scholarly evidence to draw attention to problems of the world's poor
and advocate for large scale social change. She has a three year-old
son named Che who travels the globe with her and has visited
twenty-four countries to date.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Her seminar will be held in MIT building
34, room 34-101. Dinner will be served at 5:30 and the lecture will
begin at 6:00pm. This seminar is free and open to the
public.</blockquote>
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